said by brianiscool :

Steve came up with a brilliant plan. A new peace of land called Idaho where you live in a IHouse. Lol loved that tech tv expo show.

said by ifarrell :

I can see a day when iTunes will evolve into something different from today, even disappear and this whole thing will become yesterdays news.
MS started on the right path with "Plays for Sure" but they have now back peddled with the Zune.
All they've done is used the same type model (albeit a crappy one - Zune Marketplace Credits) as Apple.

said by ifarrell :

You've gotta know this debate will drag on for years just as the MS Windows debate did.
It'll eventually go to court, Apple will have a completely separate iTunes in the EU and Scandinavia then it will quietly disappear.

said by kyramilan :

Jobs, worse than Microsoft, likes to lock in the sheep into his iTunes using his iPod. He wants DRM just as much as anyone. No DRM would hurt iTunes sales to the non-iTunes fanboys that would file-share they heck out of their half-witted "music" (too small to have real CD quality).

Also, I'm sick of the MAC commercials with the "hip" guy (looks like he smokes Marijuana or something) and the guy who looks like he's supressing his gayness or secretly has tons of kiddie porn on his "computer," if he could figure out how to play it.

Look at the iPhone: more DRM crap than anything and only good enough for ONE cell carrier. And, I'll best the phone does everything great, as long as MAC compatible, except make a phone call!

Pixar: Jobs had no problem selling out his creative team to Disney for billions.

said by kyramilan :

Also, I'm sick of the MAC commercials with the "hip" guy (looks like he smokes Marijuana or something) and the guy who looks like he's supressing his gayness or secretly has tons of kiddie porn on his "computer," if he could figure out how to play it.

said by gateguy :

but you know what they say about putting a dress on a pig...

said by clickie :

Only on DSL Reports can you have days of threads complaining about the RIAA only to be followed by copious amounts of whining when someone other than a Senator or some Hollywood big-wig calls it as it is. So instead of saying, "yeah, Jobs has a reason, but at least he's calling these people for the greedy bastards they are" we're treated to a round of iPod bashing and the requisite and extremely lame and tiresome Mac versus Windows debate.

said by trancient :

Then, in essence, one can use their other-than-iPod player with iTunes.

said by longstreet :

That's a rather interesting response from the RIAA.

Since when did the RIAA dictate Apple policy? Oh that's right, they don't.

Evil mean Apple, how dare you make money off our recording artists by offering greater exposure using your software. How dare you. Nevermind that we encouraged this sort of thing in the first place. Won't you share your coporate secrets with your competitors?

Cmon RIAA, you know you want to give all that money you're extorting from people to Apple's competitors.

Evil mean Apple, you shouldn't be allowed to make money, because big corporations making money are always bad.

The iPod and iTunes saved Apple, why should they share their secrets? It's like asking Microsoft for the source code to Windows. Ain't gonna happen.

/scoff RIAA, music industry, and Windows 0.0

/applaud for Jobs